2004 Press Releases
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glovia.com Plant Maintenance Provides Companies With Comprehensive Maintenance Management Functionality
New Module Enables Companies to Effectively Plan, Manage and Execute Asset Maintenance and Service Activities
Orlando, Fla., May 24, 2004 - Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu (TSE:6702) and a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order and high volume manufacturers, announced today, from the 2004 Glovia International User Group Conference in Orlando, Florida, the availability of glovia.com Plant Maintenance, a new module that provides companies with comprehensive maintenance management functionality.
Plant Maintenance improves both access to critical service information and control over preventative, planned and unplanned maintenance. The solution enables companies to reduce maintenance costs and minimize the risk of expensive breakdowns by creating maintenance schedules and executing service requirements for equipment and machines. The powerful inquiry and reporting tools provide comprehensive visibility into total maintenance costs, which limits excess spending and improves decision-making for new capital expenditures.
"We wanted to provide Glovia customers the ability to avoid preventable equipment breakdowns, which can painfully cost companies in lost revenues, missed deliveries and angry customers," states Randy Ehler, Executive Vice President, Research & Development and Products. "Plant Maintenance provides comprehensive functionality for effective maintenance management leading to reduced plant downtime, prolonged asset life, lowered operating costs and capital expenditures, and reduced spare parts and MRO inventory levels."
The module improves preventative maintenance by defining the maintenance intervals for any machine or equipment. The interval can be defined based on time, usage or a combination of both. Users also have the ability to define all the materials and services required to maintain each asset to ensure that the materials required for maintenance activities are ordered and available for use.
Plant Maintenance proactively notifies service personnel when assets are approaching their next maintenance interval and prompts users to create service orders, take action on existing service orders or warn them about past due service orders. In addition, the application provides comprehensive cost tracking functionality at any level of detail and automatically records the standard costs for services and materials consumed to provide a complete financial history of each asset.
Additional Functionality glovia.com Plant Maintenance provides advanced capabilities for manufacturers including:
- Comprehensive service history records for all assets, including costs
- "Out of Service" flags for assets to prevent unnecessary service orders
- Automatic service history record updates for preventative maintenance activities
- Automatic or manual counter updates for usage-based service requirements
- Easy creation of specific or non-standard service items for unplanned maintenance
- Flexible viewing of planned service orders
- Monitoring of spare parts and MRO inventory as well as its disposition
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About Glovia International
Glovia International, Inc., a subsidiary of Fujitsu (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6702), is one of the world's most experienced and solidly backed providers of extended ERP solutions for businesses of any size - from small and mid-sized companies to global enterprises. The powerful and flexible Glovia ERP suite, glovia.com, provides for the unique needs of engineer-to-order, make-to-order, high volume and mixed-mode manufacturing environments through comprehensive, end-to-end functionality for the entire product lifecycle. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Glovia has helped manufacturers to cut costs, improve productivity, and meet customer demands for over 30 years. For more information, please visit www.glovia.com or call (800) 223-3799.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$45 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.
